Multinational entities with operations in or having business with the People’s Republic of China (PRC) should take note of the PRC’s new Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL), which took effect on 1 November 2021 and is...more
A series of high-profile antitrust enforcement events have rippled through the internet sector in China. In this alert, we provide an overview of these events and our observations on possible impacts on market competition....more
On 20 April 2020, the Anti-Monopoly Bureau of the State Administration for Market Regulation of China (SAMR) made a simplified pre-merger filing announcement on its website of its acceptance of a pre-merger control filing for...more
The coronavirus disease 2019 (“COVID-19”) outbreak that started in December 2019 has stirred novel responses globally, including Chinese cities that are homes to millions of people being sealed off before the Chinese New Year...more
The Foreign Investment Law of China (the FIL), together with its Implementation Rules and related People’s Republic of China (PRC) Supreme People’s Court Interpretation, came into effect on January 1, 2020....more
On February 4, 2017, the Cyberspace Administration of China (“CAC”) issued its consultation draft measures for the security review of online products and services (“draft measures”), among the anxieties caused by the...more